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Post by keitha on Aug 7, 2023 18:57:48 GMT
Not that I would suggest such an action but many eBay buyers would do a return for don't like the colour or similar and return the item.
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Post by mostlywrong on Aug 7, 2023 19:01:59 GMT
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Post by moonraker on Aug 8, 2023 7:59:00 GMT
In my locality there are a number of planning application notices relating to the erection of new telegraph poles, which I assume is to facilitate FTTP. (In my case an existing pole was used, with the cable strung across the street and through the bracket of my TV aerial.) Rather unsightly, but far less so than the new pylons necessary to upgrade the nation's electricity supply.
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Post by keitha on Aug 8, 2023 10:17:31 GMT
In some ways I like the idea of compensating those who "suffer blight" from the pylons, wind turbines etc.
We have several proposals locally for wind farms, and I'm pretty sure a lot of the objections would go away for a suitable financial incentive.
the attitude being taken by the 2 developers is interesting, the first is purely profit lead and anyone who raises any form of objection ( including the gentleman who found maps showing part of the site is riddled with old mine workings ) is a NIMBY and should accept what is good for the country. Their idea of public benefit equates to 0.01p per kWh produced, they are not prepared to even consider a scheme that would give people a discount on electricity or council tax bills. Compare and contrast with the second company, they are happy to look at the Council owning one or more turbines, they will consider a shared ownership scheme ( on the lines of Ripple ) with the public, they said a scheme providing a discount on bills for locals is a good idea.
I support wind farms and would be much more supportive of the second developer.
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Post by adrianc on Aug 19, 2023 9:24:17 GMT
More likely is a fibre outage - we had nine days last spring. It's a lot more delicate than copper... At least you have a mobile signal. <sigh> Ten days of fibre outage later... Tree down, took the bundle with it. MAJOR hassle getting Openreach to take it seriously - escalation via council and MP brought the head of ops for the council's rural-broadband-provision scheme into it. One site visit on his part later, it was fixed next day... albeit "temporarily", with fibre still dangling into the hedge. That's going to be fun come hedge-cutting season next year. Anyway, as for the BT digital handset... I've discovered an issue. It can only be paired to the hub via WPS. Our hub does not reach the parts of the house where the phone is required, so we have a separate second wifi network (over powerline). I can find no way to pair the handset to that via password... The two wifi networks are separate because when they were the same name/password, we were having handover problems between the two halves of the house. The powerline wifi does not offer WPS. <sigh>
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Post by keitha on Aug 19, 2023 11:24:57 GMT
More likely is a fibre outage - we had nine days last spring. It's a lot more delicate than copper... At least you have a mobile signal. <sigh> Ten days of fibre outage later... Tree down, took the bundle with it. MAJOR hassle getting Openreach to take it seriously - escalation via council and MP brought the head of ops for the council's rural-broadband-provision scheme into it. One site visit on his part later, it was fixed next day... albeit "temporarily", with fibre still dangling into the hedge. That's going to be fun come hedge-cutting season next year. Anyway, as for the BT digital handset... I've discovered an issue. It can only be paired to the hub via WPS. Our hub does not reach the parts of the house where the phone is required, so we have a separate second wifi network (over powerline). I can find no way to pair the handset to that via password... The two wifi networks are separate because when they were the same name/password, we were having handover problems between the two halves of the house. The powerline wifi does not offer WPS. <sigh> is it an issue of one of the networks being N and the other G ie one using the 5GHZ band the other the 2.5 ( or is it b2.4) GHZ
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Post by archie on Aug 19, 2023 11:39:41 GMT
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Post by adrianc on Aug 19, 2023 11:52:11 GMT
<sigh> Ten days of fibre outage later... Tree down, took the bundle with it. MAJOR hassle getting Openreach to take it seriously - escalation via council and MP brought the head of ops for the council's rural-broadband-provision scheme into it. One site visit on his part later, it was fixed next day... albeit "temporarily", with fibre still dangling into the hedge. That's going to be fun come hedge-cutting season next year. Anyway, as for the BT digital handset... I've discovered an issue. It can only be paired to the hub via WPS. Our hub does not reach the parts of the house where the phone is required, so we have a separate second wifi network (over powerline). I can find no way to pair the handset to that via password... The two wifi networks are separate because when they were the same name/password, we were having handover problems between the two halves of the house. The powerline wifi does not offer WPS. <sigh> is it an issue of one of the networks being N and the other G ie one using the 5GHZ band the other the 2.5 ( or is it b2.4) GHZ No, both 2.4. Devices just seemed very reluctant to handover.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Aug 19, 2023 12:19:43 GMT
In my locality there are a number of planning application notices relating to the erection of new telegraph poles, which I assume is to facilitate FTTP. (In my case an existing pole was used, with the cable strung across the street and through the bracket of my TV aerial.) Rather unsightly, but far less so than the new pylons necessary to upgrade the nation's electricity supply. This is probably because after the death of a female engineer and her unborn child after a redirected double decker bus hit a low cable over the public highway throwing her off the pole over an adjacent house roof, the hse established a minimum road clearance and banned the erection of any new or replacement wires under fault conditions below the required hight . Also engineers are banned from climbing any pole which has a low wire attached, pretty much instant dismissal .
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Post by adrianc on Aug 21, 2023 13:19:48 GMT
Anyway, as for the BT digital handset... I've discovered an issue. It can only be paired to the hub via WPS. Our hub does not reach the parts of the house where the phone is required, so we have a separate second wifi network (over powerline). I can find no way to pair the handset to that via password... The two wifi networks are separate because when they were the same name/password, we were having handover problems between the two halves of the house. The powerline wifi does not offer WPS. <sigh> Little more digging - the handset does not use 802.11 wifi to connect to the hub. It connects to the hub via DECT. Buggeration. Anybody had any experience with DECT repeaters? Are they better than wifi repeaters?
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Post by michaelc on Aug 21, 2023 13:34:11 GMT
More likely is a fibre outage - we had nine days last spring. It's a lot more delicate than copper... At least you have a mobile signal. <sigh> Ten days of fibre outage later... Tree down, took the bundle with it. MAJOR hassle getting Openreach to take it seriously - escalation via council and MP brought the head of ops for the council's rural-broadband-provision scheme into it. One site visit on his part later, it was fixed next day... albeit "temporarily", with fibre still dangling into the hedge. That's going to be fun come hedge-cutting season next year. Anyway, as for the BT digital handset... I've discovered an issue. It can only be paired to the hub via WPS. Our hub does not reach the parts of the house where the phone is required, so we have a separate second wifi network (over powerline). I can find no way to pair the handset to that via password... The two wifi networks are separate because when they were the same name/password, we were having handover problems between the two halves of the house. The powerline wifi does not offer WPS. <sigh> Now why doesn't it surprise me that much that you got your council Head of Operations and MP involved when you lose your internet? Lets hope your MP is as responsive in future if you _really_ need him.
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Post by adrianc on Aug 21, 2023 14:13:39 GMT
<sigh> Ten days of fibre outage later... Tree down, took the bundle with it. MAJOR hassle getting Openreach to take it seriously - escalation via council and MP brought the head of ops for the council's rural-broadband-provision scheme into it. One site visit on his part later, it was fixed next day... albeit "temporarily", with fibre still dangling into the hedge. That's going to be fun come hedge-cutting season next year. Now why doesn't it surprise me that much that you got your council Head of Operations and MP involved when you lose your internet? Lets hope your MP is as responsive in future if you _really_ need him. Actually, the chair of the parish council got them involved when about 100 households and businesses lost their broadband and (many of them) landline for a predicted ten days (for the second time in just over a year) in an area with very poor to non-existent mobile coverage. I hope he gets more involved than just a staffer forwarding an email. I mean, it is his actual job, an' all.
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Post by keitha on Aug 21, 2023 14:22:53 GMT
<sigh> Ten days of fibre outage later... Tree down, took the bundle with it. MAJOR hassle getting Openreach to take it seriously - escalation via council and MP brought the head of ops for the council's rural-broadband-provision scheme into it. One site visit on his part later, it was fixed next day... albeit "temporarily", with fibre still dangling into the hedge. That's going to be fun come hedge-cutting season next year. Anyway, as for the BT digital handset... I've discovered an issue. It can only be paired to the hub via WPS. Our hub does not reach the parts of the house where the phone is required, so we have a separate second wifi network (over powerline). I can find no way to pair the handset to that via password... The two wifi networks are separate because when they were the same name/password, we were having handover problems between the two halves of the house. The powerline wifi does not offer WPS. <sigh> Now why doesn't it surprise me that much that you got your council Head of Operations and MP involved when you lose your internet? Lets hope your MP is as responsive in future if you _really_ need him. From what i've seen of adrianc on here he isn't the sort of person who goes whinging to his MP etc within minutes and without trying other routes of escalation. I'd guess he tried the other routes and hit a brick wall, and it needed the bulldozer of an MP or head of OPs for the council to actually get openreach to respond. I would humbly suggest Adrian is the sort of guy that you need when something happens, as he would take on the fight for the area not just himself. Many organisations are similar, I had massive issues with the CSA years ago ( they believed every lie my ex told them ) they even told me my payslips were faked, as they "knew" I earned far more than my payslips said. I fought them for 18 months with practically no response, a letter to my MP generated a letter to them from him, and suddenly they could believe me. I do remember getting a compensatory payment from them for distress, anxiety stress etc caused by them over 2 years £50.
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Post by benaj on Dec 15, 2023 12:14:39 GMT
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Post by keitha on Dec 15, 2023 14:56:19 GMT
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